I want to play a game with a similar style to save game, but haven't played fate before. Can I play a game with just this book or should I also buy the Fate Core System book?

December 04, 2016 5:20 pm UTC

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Rules for playing Fate are not included in this. You should be able to get the gist of play from either Fate Core or Fate Accelerated.

Tyler CJanuary 21, 2015 6:03 am UTC

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Anyone else have any idea how to determine initiative and are hearts taken out the same way as Stress Boxes?

January 21, 2015 2:50 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Initiative — As in Fate Core. Hearts — same as stress, they're just renamed for flavor. :)

Steve SJuly 12, 2016 4:41 am UTC

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The standard Fate Core suggest highest Notice for physical conflicts or highest Empathy for mental conflicts. With no Empathy, you could go for highest Spot skill in Save Game and do fine. However...

I'm a fan of Popcorn initiative with the GM taking the first turn (the GM being me), then passing to whoever is dramatically appropriate to act first, letting the turns go in the players' choice of order after. This lets them do things like set up advantages and immediately ensure they can be used, and forces some tactical thinking about who should be last (which allows the possibility of two turns in a row).

Super Awesome for a group just learning Fate Core. I'd absolutely run this again with another group. As long as your group likes weirdness or 80s video games, you can't go wrong with this. It should be noted that we ran by the book, r [...]

The setting and it's write-up is really nice and tight, and the system tweak looks good. The adventure structure also seems excellent and nicely adaptable. We're creating characters now with my kids and their friends and are eager to play! Only [...]

To my mind, this World of Adventure issue is a must-read for any Fate Core player out there. It is a remarkable show of how to play with dials in Fate Core to adapt the system to a setting. What I like most :
• The setting in itself is brilli [...]

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